General news, niche hobby news, anything - what sources do you regularly read?
A series of news weirdos on social media, a critical reading of major news outlets, issue-specific advocacy groups, individual journalists on YouTube etc, and criticism orgs line FAIR
I try to cross-reference things and then look at the critical angles. Public media generally has higher editorial standards for me. I don't trust right-wing sources or the New York Times because they lack editorial standards. State media I don't trust for domestic issues, but while I don't go to Al Jazeera for news about Qatar I trust their coverage of Palestine and France. I try to avoid sources that have an involved stake in the conflict, so something like Ukraine means no RT/Pravda but I'll watch the primary footage coming off Telegram and then compare it to multiple countries' coverage of it. I try to stay dialectical with all of it, so I'm cognizant of the history and material/social angles which create the issue and the biases of those covering it. I'll read a socialist article but I don't want to uncritically agree with news so that's more supplemental unless the media hasn't yet/won't cover it.
Otherwise I listen to a lot of podcasts that are leftist or left-liberal, keep a critical eye on social media coverage, and follow scientific journals/niche science websites that summarise those journal articles without editorialising.
I don't go out of my way to get news, so social media/Lemmy. Except for local news, which I do follow more closely. But that's it.
Mostly RSS for me, incidentally there is a publlic rss api on reddit. You can add
.rssto any subreddit URL to get a feed. It's a nice way to get news from there without actually having to use reddit.Democracy Now is my main source
I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing
Try DW news. I've found it fantastic. Also just as good for written news.
- ShowI spend a couple of hours each morning with coffee exploring a majority selection of these sites to get a quality overview.
Couple of hours... each morning? Did you win the lottery or something?
- APOD - start my day with some perspective
- techmeme - aggregates tech news
- memeorandum - aggregates political news
- HuffingtonPost - nice mix of serious & trashy pop culture junk
- Politico - slightly right, but very serious analysis
- Mother Jones - very left, but well-written
- Then a few thousand RSS feeds, which I read in Feedbin.
- Fediverse, Lemmy, etc.
Block Club Chicago, a hyperlocal newspaper I helped find when it was a startup, for local news
The Chicago Reader for music and culture news
My wife and social media for political and tech news
to news weirdos.
